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Shiraz A Sabah
BSc FRCS(Orth)
Education
DPhil student, Musculoskeletal Sciences
University of Oxford
Oxford
2024 - 2019
Specialist Registrar in Trauma & Orthopaedics
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Rotation
London
2023 - 2014
Core Surgical Trainee
London Deanery
London
2014 - 2012
Academic Foundation Trainee
London Deanery
London
2012 - 2010
Medical Student
Imperial College School of Medicine
London
2010 - 2004
School
St. Michael’s School
Llanelli
2004 - 2000
Qualifications
FRCS(Tr&Orth)
Royal College of Surgeons of England
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2019
MRCS
Royal College of Surgeons of England
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2013
MRCP Parts 1&2 written
Royal College of Physicians
N/A
2012
MBBS
Imperial College School of Medicine
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2010
BSc in Surgery & Anaesthesia (First class)
Imperial College London
N/A
2008
Prizes
WJ Little Medal
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Rotation
N/A
2018
Grants
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
£291,045
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2024 - 2021
Rosetrees Trust Surgical Trials Fellow
£8,000
N/A
2021 - 2019
Royal College of Surgeons One Year Fellowship
£68,000
N/A
2021 - 2020
Leadership & Management
Editorial Board Member
Bone & Joint Journal
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Current - 2021
Oxford Executive Leadership Programme
Said Business School, University of Oxford
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2022
Seddon Society Meeting Organiser
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital Rotation
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2019 - 2017
Employment
Locum Consultant Hip & Knee Surgeon
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford
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Current - Nov 2023
Senior Hip & Knee Fellow
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford
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Nov 2023 - Oct 2023
- Supervisor: Mr B Kendrick / Mr A Alvand
ST8 registrar (Joint reconstruction)
Watford General Hospital
N/A
Oct 2023 - Apr 2023
- Supervisor: Mr N Davies
ST8 registrar (Joint reconstruction & Sarcoma)
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
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Apr 2023 - Oct 2022
- Supervisor: Mr W Aston
DPhil student, Musculoskeletal Sciences
University of Oxford
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Oct 2022 - Oct 2019
- Supervisor: Prof AJ Price
ST7 registrar (Joint reconstruction & Sarcoma)
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
N/A
Oct 2019 - Oct 2018
- Supervisor: Prof JA Skinner / Mr R Pollock / Prof AJ Hart
ST6 registrar (Hand surgery)
Basildon & Thurrock University Hospital
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Oct 2018 - Apr 2018
- Supervisor: Mr S Phillips
ST5/6 registrar (Joint reconstruction)
Watford General Hospital
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Apr 2018 - Apr 2017
- Supervisor: Mr N Davies / Mr S West
ST5 registrar (Spinal surgery)
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
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Apr 2017 - Oct 2016
- Supervisor: Mr K Rezajooi
ST4 registrar (Foot & ankle surgery / Joint reconstruction)
Queen’s Hospital, Romford
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Oct 2016 - Oct 2015
- Supervisors: Mr K Vemulapalli / Mr J Wong
ST3 registrar (Paediatric orthopaedic surgery)
Great Ormond Street Hospital
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Oct 2015 - Apr 2015
- Supervisor: Mr G Spence
ST3 registrar (Foot & ankle surgery)
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
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Apr 2015 - Oct 2014
- Supervisor: Mr A Goldberg
Core Surgical Trainee
Royal London Hospital / Barnet General Hospital
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Oct 2014 - Oct 2012
Academic Foundation Trainee
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital / St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington
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Aug 2012 - Aug 2010
Teaching
I am faculty on several national FRCS(Orth) courses and have received excellent feedback for teaching. I am developing a multimedia Trauma & Orthopaedics curriculum with the Bone & Joint Journal.
Bone & Joint Education
Bone & Joint Journal
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Current - 2021
ST3 Interview Course Convenor
Orthopaedic Research UK
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Current - 2014
FRCS(Tr&Orth) Course Faculty
Orthopaedic Research UK
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Current - 2019
Research
My research centres around understanding patient-relevant outcomes following primary and revision hip and knee replacement.
Find more information on my Google Scholar profile: 60 scientific publications, 1819 citations, h-index: 19.
The outcomes of acute periprosthetic joint infection following unicompartmental knee replacement managed with early debridement, Antibiotics, and implant retention.
Asadollahi S, Hamilton TW, Sabah SA, Scarborough M, Price AJ, Gibbons CL, Murray DW, Alvand A. The Knee. 2024 Mar 1;47:13-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knee.2023.12.001
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2024
Patient-Relevant Outcomes Following First Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty, by Diagnosis: An Analysis of Implant Survivorship, Mortality, Serious Medical Complications, and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Utilizing the National Joint Registry Data.
Sabah S, Knight R, Alvand A, Palmer A, Middleton R, Abram SGF, et al. JBJS 2023;105:1611–21. https://doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.23.00251.
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2023
Item response theory may account for unequal item weighting and individual-level measurement error in trials that use PROMs: a psychometric sensitivity analysis of the TOPKAT trial.
Harrison CJ, Plessen CY, Liegl G, Rodrigues JN, Sabah SA, Cook JA, et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2023;158:62–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.03.013.
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2023
Item response theory assumptions were adequately met by the Oxford hip and knee scores.
Harrison CJ, Plessen CY, Liegl G, Rodrigues JN, Sabah SA, Beard DJ, et al. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2023;158:166–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.04.008.
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2023
Patient-relevant outcomes following elective, aseptic revision knee arthroplasty: a systematic review.
Sabah SA, Hedge EA, von Fritsch L, Xu J, Rajasekaran RB, Hamilton TW, et al. Systematic Reviews 2023;12:133. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-023-02290-6
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2023
Indications and techniques for non-articulating spacers in massive bone loss following prosthetic knee joint infection: a scoping review.
Sina JP, Sabah SA, Schrednitzki D, Price AJ, Hamilton TW, Alvand A. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg 2023;143:5793–805. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00402-023-04893-z.
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2023
Epidemiology of revision hip replacement surgery in the UK over the past 15 years—an analysis from the National Joint Registry.
Sabah SA, Knight R, Nicolson PJA, Taylor A, Kendrick B, Alvand A, et al. BMJ Open 2023;13:e072462. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072462.
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2023
Overcoming floor and ceiling effects in knee arthroplasty outcome measurement: mapping the Oxford Knee Score and High Activity Arthroplasty Score onto a common scale.
Harrison CJ, Plessen CY, Liegl G, Rodrigues JN, Sabah SA, Beard DJ, et al. Bone & Joint Research 2023;12:624–35. https://doi.org/10.1302/2046-3758.1210.BJR-2022-0457.R1.
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2023
Re-revision Knee Arthroplasty in a Tertiary Center: Infection and Multiple Previous Surgeries Were Associated With Poor Early Clinical and Functional Outcomes.
von Fritsch L, Sabah SA, Xu J, Price AJ, Merle C, Alvand A. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 2023 Jan 27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arth.2023.01.030
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2023
No exponential rise in revision knee replacement surgery over the past 15 years: An analysis from the National Joint Registry
SA Sabah, R Knight, A Alvand, DW Murray, S Petrou, DJ Beard, AJ Price. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2022.08.016
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2022
Implant survivorship, functional outcomes and complications with the use of rotating hinge knee implants: a systematic review
J Xu, L von Fritsch, SA Sabah, AJ Price, A Alvand. Knee Surgery & Related Research. Dec;34(1):1-1.
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2022
Self-reported neurotoxic symptoms in hip arthroplasty patients with highly elevated blood cobalt: a case-control study
I Swiatkowska, J Henckel, SA Sabah, AJ Hart. Journal of Patient Safety. 18 (1), e10-e17
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2022
Minimal important changes and differences were estimated for Oxford hip and knee scores following primary and revision arthroplasty
SA Sabah, A Alvand, DJ Beard, AJ Price. Journal of clinical epidemiology. 143, 159-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.12.016
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2022
Revision total knee replacement case-mix at a major revision centre
SA Sabah, L von Fritsch, T Khan, AD Shearman, RB Rajasekaran, …. Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics. 9 (1), 1-9
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2022
Early patient-reported outcomes following primary hip and knee replacement have improved over the past seven years: Analysis of the NHS PROMs dataset
SA Sabah, R Knight, A Alvand, DJ Beard, AJ Price. Bone and Joint Journal.
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2022
Revision knee replacement for prosthetic joint infection: Epidemiology, clinical outcomes and health-economic considerations
SA Sabah, A Alvand, AJ Price. The Knee. 28, 417-421
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2021
Evidence for the validity of a patient-based instrument for assessment of outcome after revision knee arthroplasty: evaluation of the Oxford Knee Score using a UK national …
SA Sabah, A Alvand, DJ Beard, AJ Price. The Bone & Joint Journal. 103 (4), 627-634
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2021
Patient-Reported function and quality of life after revision total knee arthroplasty: an analysis of 10,727 patients from the NHS PROMs program
SA Sabah, A Alvand, R Knight, DJ Beard, AJ Price. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 36 (8), 2887-2895. e7
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2021
Differences in mortality and complication rates following revision knee arthroplasty performed for urgent versus elective indications
SGF Abram, SA Sabah, A Alvand, AJ Price. The Bone & Joint Journal. 103 (10), 1578-1585
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2021
New instrumentation system for cementless mobile-bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty improves surgical performance particularly for trainees
A Alvand, HA Wilson, SA Sabah, R Middleton, N Bottomley, WFM Jackson, …. The Knee. 31, 46-53
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2021
Metal ion toxicity: is it still a problem in 2021?
JA Skinner, SA Sabah, AJ Hart. Bone & Joint Research. 10 (6), 348-350
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2021
An update on prosthetic joint infection for UK trainees
SA Sabah, AD Shearman, A Alvand. Surgery (Oxford). 39 (11), 748-751
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2021
Patient-reported outcome measures following revision knee replacement: a review of PROM instrument utilisation and measurement properties using the COSMIN checklist
SA Sabah, EA Hedge, SGF Abram, A Alvand, AJ Price, S Hopewell. BMJ open. 11 (10), e046169
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2021
The last word on placebo-controlled surgical trials
S Sabah, A Alvand. Journal of Trauma & Orthopaedics. 9 (2)
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2021
Management of aseptic failure of the mobile-bearing Oxford unicompartmental knee arthroplasty
SA Sabah, CT Lim, R Middleton, L von Fritsch, N Bottomley, …. The Knee. 27 (6), 1721-1728
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2020
Manipulation under anesthetic after primary knee arthroplasty is associated with a higher rate of subsequent revision surgery
SGF Abram, B Yusuf, A Alvand, SA Sabah, DJ Beard, AJ Price. The Journal of Arthroplasty. 35 (9), 2640-2645. e2
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2020
Novel use of intraoperative cone-beam imaging with on-table angiography for excision of an occipitocervical tumour: A technical note and its feasibility
Z Su, GK Prezerakos, S Sabah, K Rezajooi. Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery. 22, 100784
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2020
Commentary: Debridement, antibiotics and implant retention (DAIR) for the management of knee prosthetic joint infection
SA Sabah, WFM Jackson. Journal of Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery. 1 (3)
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2020
Cervical dural calcification and cervical myelopathy in X-linked hypophosphataemic rickets: a case report and review of the literature
AA Najefi, DB Beder, SA Sabah, K Rezajooi. British Journal of Neurosurgery. 33 (2), 222-223
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2019
The risk of cardiac failure following metal-on-metal hip arthroplasty
SA Sabah, JC Moon, S Jenkins-Jones, CL Morgan, CJ Currie, …. The Bone & Joint Journal. 100 (1), 20-27
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2018
The silhouette technique: improving post-operative radiographs for planning of correction with a hexapod external fixator
J Wright, SA Sabah, S Patel, G Spence. Strategies in Trauma and Limb Reconstruction. 12 (2), 127-131
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2017
Are all metal-on-metal hip revision operations contributing to the National Joint Registry implant survival curves? A study comparing the London Implant Retrieval Centre and …
SA Sabah, J Henckel, S Koutsouris, R Rajani, H Hothi, JA Skinner, …. The bone & joint journal. 98 (1), 33-39
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2016
Higher blood cobalt and chromium levels in patients with unilateral metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasties compared to hip resurfacings
OS Lainiala, TPS Moilanen, AJ Hart, HSA Huhtala, SA Sabah, …. The journal of arthroplasty. 31 (6), 1261-1266
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2016
Validated method for measuring functional range of motion in patients with ankle arthritis
J Thornton, S Sabah, N Segaren, N Cullen, D Singh, A Goldberg. Foot & Ankle International. 37 (8), 868-873
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2016
Calculating the hip center of rotation using contralateral pelvic anatomy
M Durand‐Hill, J Henckel, K Satchithananda, S Sabah, J Hua, H Hothi, …. Journal of Orthopaedic Research. 34 (6), 1077-1083
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2016
Assessment of emergency department eye examinations in patients presenting with mid-face injury
T Welman, K Shanmugarajah, S Sabah, J Bryan, N Hachach-Haram, …. The Journal of Emergency Medicine. 50 (3), 422-426
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2016
Measuring Functional Range of Motion in Patients with Ankle Arthritis
AJ Goldberg, JD Thornton, SA Sabah, N Segaren, N Cullen, D Singh. Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics. 1 (1), 2473011416S00033
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2016
The unforeseen costs of MHRA guidance to resurfacing hip replacement in the UK
J Davidson, S Sabah, R Berber, H Hothi, J Miles, R Carrington, A Power, …. Orthopaedic Proceedings. 98 (SUPP_11), 22-22
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2016
Validation of primary metal-on-metal hip arthroplasties on the National Joint Registry for England, Wales and Northern Ireland using data from the London Implant Retrieval …
SA Sabah, J Henckel, E Cook, R Whittaker, H Hothi, Y Pappas, G Blunn, …. The bone & joint journal. 97 (1), 10-18
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2015
Lessons learnt from metal-on-metal hip arthroplasties will lead to safer innovation for all medical devices
AJ Hart, SA Sabah, J Henckel, G Lloyd, JA Skinner. Hip International. 25 (4), 347-354
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2015
Method for the location of primary wear scars from retrieved metal on metal hip replacements
G Govind, J Henckel, H Hothi, S Sabah, J Skinner, A Hart. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 16 (1), 1-5
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2015
Surveillance of patients with metal-on-metal hip resurfacing and total hip prostheses: a prospective cohort study to investigate the relationship between blood metal ion levels …
AJ Hart, SA Sabah, B Sampson, JA Skinner, JJ Powell, L Palla, …. JBJS. 96 (13), 1091-1099
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2014
A comparison of the diagnostic accuracy of MARS MRI and ultrasound of the painful metal-on-metal hip arthroplasty
IA Siddiqui, SA Sabah, K Satchithananda, AK Lim, S Cro, J Henckel, …. Acta orthopaedica. 85 (4), 375-382
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2014
Cross-sectional imaging of metal-on-metal hip arthroplasties: can we substitute MARS MRI with CT?
E Robinson, J Henckel, S Sabah, K Satchithananda, J Skinner, A Hart. Acta orthopaedica. 85 (6), 577-584
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2014
Changes in blood ion levels after removal of metal-on-metal hip replacements: 16 patients followed for 0–12 months
SK Durrani, PC Noble, B Sampson, T Panetta, AD Liddle, SA Sabah, …. Acta orthopaedica. 85 (3), 259-265
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2014
The effect of a manufacturer recall on the threshold to revise a metal-on-metal hip
S Tibrewal, S Sabah, J Henckel, A Hart. International orthopaedics. 38 (10), 2017-2020
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2014
Optimisation of intramedullary nail alignment
SA Sabah, J Singh, N Heidari. The Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England. 96 (2), 166-166
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2014
Investigating the Painful Metal-on-Metal Hip: Is CT a Substitute for Metal Artefact Reduction Sequence MRI?
E Robinson, S Sabah, J Henckel, K Satchithananda, M Khoo, TM Parsons, …. .
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2014
Revision of metal-on-metal hip arthroplasty in a tertiary center: a prospective study of 39 hips with between 1 and 4 years of follow-up
AD Liddle, K Satchithananda, J Henckel, SA Sabah, KV Vipulendran, …. Acta orthopaedica. 84 (3), 237-245
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2013
Cross-sectional imaging of the metal-on-metal hip prosthesis: the London ultrasound protocol
IA Siddiqui, SA Sabah, K Satchithananda, AK Lim, J Henckel, JA Skinner, …. Clinical Radiology. 68 (8), e472-e478
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2013
Routine surgical outpatient follow-up one year after carotid endarterectomy does not result in medical or surgical reintervention
S Sabah, R Geleit, S Sarkar, C Kyriakides. International Journal of Surgery. 8 (11), 744-745
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2013
Pseudotumors in association with well-functioning metal-on-metal hip prostheses: a case-control study using three-dimensional computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging
AJ Hart, K Satchithananda, AD Liddle, SA Sabah, D McRobbie, J Henckel, …. JBJS. 94 (4), 317-325
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2012
Objective assessment of initial eye examination in patients presenting with mid-face injuries
K Shanmugarajah, S Sabah, T Welman, S Westley, R Skinner, N Haram, …. International Journal of Surgery. 8 (10), S67
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2012
Sensitivity and specificity of blood cobalt and chromium metal ions for predicting failure of metal-on-metal hip replacement
AJ Hart, SA Sabah, AS Bandi, P Maggiore, P Tarassoli, B Sampson, …. The Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume. 93 (10), 1308-1313
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2011
Magnetic resonance imaging findings in painful metal-on-metal hips: a prospective study
SA Sabah, AWM Mitchell, J Henckel, A Sandison, JA Skinner, AJ Hart. The Journal of arthroplasty. 26 (1), 71-76. e2
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2011
Sabah SA Bandi AS Maggiore P Tarassoli P Sampson BA Skinner J. Sensitivity and specificity of blood cobalt and chromium metal ions for predicting failure of metal-on-metal hip …
AJ Hart. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 93 (10), 1308-13
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2011
The painful metal-on-metal hip resurfacing
AJ Hart, S Sabah, J Henckel, A Lewis, J Cobb, B Sampson, A Mitchell, …. The Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume. 91 (6), 738-744
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2009
References
Mr Antony Palmer
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford
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Mr Abtin Alvand
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford
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